Welcome to the homepage of the Research
Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. By
unifying excellence in research, authenticity in science and a commitment
to society, the institute network of the Academy is set to produce
scientific results of value to Hungary and the rest of the world. As part
of the only full-time research institute network in Hungary, with
nationally well established research traditions, our primary aim is to
play a fundamental role in promoting the good of the general public and in
building the foundation for our future through valuable scientific
achievements based on highly promising and innovative research.

The primary tasks of the Research
Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences include
theoretical and applied research in general linguistic issues, as well as
in Hungarian linguistics, Uralic studies, and phonetics. We also undertake
the on-going compilation of the comprehensive dictionary of Hungarian.
Other projects investigate different variants of Hungarian and minority
languages in Hungary, as well as issues in language policy. Further tasks
include the assembly of linguistic corpora and databases. The Institute
operates a public counselling service and prepares expert reports on
relevant affairs on demand. The Institute also runs the Theoretical
Linguistics Programme jointly with Eötvös Loránd University.

Documentation concerning the legal
status of HAS' Research Institute for Linguistics can be found
here.

The Research Institute for Linguistics has been temporaly
moved to this address due to reconstruction works:
Budapest, 1067 Teréz krt. 13. All lectures will be held
here. The library will be closed for the time of the
renovation.

Dr. DU Xiang lexicographer (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASS),
Institute of Linguistics) will be a visitor professor in the institute
for 12 months from the end of October.

Rebecca Woods (University of Huddersfield) will be a
visitor of the project The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special)
uses between 13 and 17 November 2017.

Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) will spend 4 months at the
Research Institute for Linguistics as one of the winners of the
Distinguished Guest Scientist Program of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences.

From 2017, Acta Linguistica Hungarica is being published with a new title:
Acta Linguistica Academica.
Volume 64, issue 1, the first issue to bear
the new title, is available open access from the publisher's homepage. This issue contains articles by
Marcel den Dikken, Anikó Lipták and István Kenesei, Gregory Stump, Akira
Watanabe and Jeroen van de Weijer.

Hungary joins
CLARIN ERIC:
On 1st August Hungary gained admission to
CLARIN ERIC, the European Research
infrastructure whose mission is to bring modern language technology
tools and resources to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
and provide support in their use. The Research Institute for Linguistics
was a founding member of the CLARIN project that was launched after the
first ESFRI Roadmap and played a leading role in the preparatory phase
of the project. Until now lack of national support prevented it from
joining CLARIN ERIC, which was formed as CLARIN entered its construction
phase.

The Research institute for Linguistics acts as the National Coordinator
of the HUNCLARIN research infrastructure network, which currently has
seven members. Membership in the 19 country strong CLARIN ERIC will open
up new vistas for collaboration and will enhance the quality and
visibility of Hungarian research in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences.

Two-year postdoctoral research fellowships have been
granted as part of the MTA Postdoctoral Research
Programme to
Éva Dékány (Department of Theoretical
Linguistics, supervisor: Katalin É. Kiss) and to
Tilda
Neuberger (Department of Phonetics, supervisor: Mária
Gósy).

Marcel den Dikken, who is Professor of Linguistics at the City University of
New York, started his research project at the Research Institute for Linguistics
on 1 September, 2014. Professor den Dikken is one of the Distinguished Guest
Scientists of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the academic year of
2014/15. He will spend 10 months at the Resarch Institute for Linguistics
working on filler-gap dependencies in natural language and the way their
locality is constrained.